Look up HTML character references

Find a displayed character and compare its decimal reference and listed entity name. Verify the reference in your target HTML before using it.

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HTML character entity reference
Character	Decimal entity	Rendered character	Character	Decimal entity	Rendered character
"	"	"	&	&	&
<	<	<	à	à	à
>	>	>
¡	¡	¡	Á	Á	Á
á	á	á	â	â	â
¢	¢	¢	Â	Â	Â
£	£	£	Ã	Ã	Ã
ã	ã	ã	ä	ä	ä
¤	¤	¤	Ä	Ä	Ä
¥	¥	¥	Å	Å	Å
å	å	å	æ	æ	æ
¦	¦	¦	Æ	Æ	Æ
§	§	§	Ç	Ç	Ç
ç	ç	ç	è	è	è
¨	¨	¨	È	È	È
©	©	©	É	É	É
é	é	é	ê	ê	ê
ª	ª	ª	Ê	Ê	Ê
«	«	«	Ë	Ë	Ë
ë	ë	ë	ì	ì	ì
¬	¬	¬	Ì	Ì	Ì
			Í	Í	Í
í	í	í	î	î	î
®	®	®	Î	Î	Î
¯	¯	¯	Ï	Ï	Ï
ï	ï	ï	ð	ð	ð
°	°	°	Ð	Ð	Ð
±	±	±	Ñ	Ñ	Ñ
ñ	ñ	ñ	ò	ò	ò
²	²	²	Ò	Ò	Ò
³	³	³	Ó	Ó	Ó
ó	ó	ó	ô	ô	ô
´	´	´	Ô	Ô	Ô
µ	µ	µ	Õ	Õ	Õ
õ	õ	õ	ö	ö	ö
¶	¶	¶	Ö	Ö	Ö
·	·	·	×	×	×
÷	÷	÷	ø	ø	ø
¸	¸	¸	Ø	Ø	Ø
¹	¹	¹	Ù	Ù	Ù
ù	ù	ù	ú	ú	ú
º	º	º	Ú	Ú	Ú
»	»	»	Û	Û	Û
û	û	û	ü	ü	ü
¼	¼	¼	Ü	Ü	Ü
½	½	½	Ý	Ý	Ý
¾	¾	¾	Þ	Þ	Þ
þ	þ	þ	ý	ý	ý
¿	¿	¿	ß	ß	ß
À	À	À	ÿ	ÿ	ÿ

Use the table to look up HTML character references and their decoded characters.
Special Symbols	Named entity	Decimal encoding	Special Symbols	Named entity	Decimal encoding
Α	Α	Α	Β	Β	Β
Γ	Γ	Γ	Δ	Δ	Δ
Ε	Ε	Ε	Ζ	Ζ	Ζ
Η	Η	Η	Θ	Θ	Θ
Ι	Ι	Ι	Κ	Κ	Κ
Λ	Λ	Λ	Μ	Μ	Μ
Ν	Ν	Ν	Ξ	Ξ	Ξ
Ο	Ο	Ο	Π	Π	Π
Ρ	Ρ	Ρ	Σ	Σ	Σ
Τ	Τ	Τ	Υ	Υ	Υ
Φ	Φ	Φ	Χ	Χ	Χ
Ψ	Ψ	Ψ	Ω	Ω	Ω
α	α	α	β	β	β
γ	γ	γ	δ	δ	δ
ε	ε	ε	ζ	ζ	ζ
η	η	η	θ	θ	θ
ι	ι	ι	κ	κ	κ
λ	λ	λ	μ	μ	μ
ν	ν	ν	ξ	ξ	ξ
ο	ο	ο	π	π	π
ρ	ρ	ρ	ς	&sigmaf;	ς
σ	σ	σ	τ	τ	τ
υ	υ	υ	φ	φ	φ
χ	χ	χ	ψ	ψ	ψ
ω	ω	ω	ϑ	&thetasym;	ϑ
ϒ	&upsih;	ϒ	ϖ	ϖ	ϖ
•	•	•	…	…	…
′	′	′	″	″	″
‾	&oline;	‾	⁄	&frasl;	⁄
℘	&weierp;	℘	ℑ	&image;	ℑ
ℜ	&real;	ℜ	™	™	™
ℵ	&alefsym;	ℵ	←	←	←
↑	↑	↑	→	→	→
↓	↓	↓	↔	↔	↔
↵	&crarr;	↵	⇐	⇐	⇐
⇑	&uArr;	⇑	⇒	⇒	⇒
⇓	&dArr;	⇓	⇔	⇔	⇔
∀	∀	∀	∂	∂	∂
∃	∃	∃	∅	∅	∅
∇	∇	∇	∈	∈	∈
∉	∉	∉	∋	&ni;	∋
∏	∏	∏	∑	∑	∑
−	−	−	∗	&lowast;	∗
√	√	√	∝	&prop;	∝
∞	∞	∞	∠	&ang;	∠
∧	&and;	∧	∨	&or;	∨
∩	∩	∩	∪	∪	∪
∫	∫	∫	∴	&there4;	∴
∼	&sim;	∼	≅	&cong;	≅
≈	≈	≈	≠	≠	≠
≡	&equiv;	≡	≤	≤	≤
≥	≥	≥	⊂	⊂	⊂
⊃	⊃	⊃	⊄	&nsub;	⊄
⊆	&sube;	⊆	⊇	&supe;	⊇
⊕	&oplus;	⊕	⊗	&otimes;	⊗
⊥	&perp;	⊥	⋅	⋅	⋅
⌈	&lceil;	⌈	⌉	&rceil;	⌉
⌊	&lfloor;	⌊	⌋	&rfloor;	⌋
◊	&loz;	◊	♠	&spades;	♠
♣	&clubs;	♣	♥	&hearts;	♥
♦	&diams;	♦
¡	¡	¡	¢	¢	¢
£	£	£	¤	¤	¤
¥	¥	¥	¦	¦	¦
§	§	§	¨	¨	¨
©	©	©	ª	ª	ª
«	«	«	¬	¬	¬
			®	®	®
¯	¯	¯	°	°	°
±	±	±	²	²	²
³	³	³	´	´	´
µ	µ	µ

How to look up an HTML character reference

This page is a static reference: two tables pair 243 entries with the decimal reference that encodes a character and the named entity that renders it. Table I holds the 100 entries of the ASCII special characters and the Latin-1 block, from the quotation mark and the ampersand to accented letters such as é or ü and symbols such as © or ÷. Table II holds 143 symbols: Greek letters from Α to ω, mathematical and relational operators (≤, ∑, √, ∞), arrows, and typographic or letterlike characters such as •, ′, ™ and £.

Nothing is generated or uploaded: the rows are part of the document, so the tables render offline, browser find covers every column, and no request leaves the page while you look a character up.

Press Ctrl+F (Cmd+F on a Mac) and type what you already know: the character itself, its decimal number, or the entity name — "times" finds the row for ×.

Read across the row: the character, its decimal reference such as é, and its named entity such as é.

Copy the form you need. A named entity keeps the source readable; a decimal reference still works where the name is not recognised.

Check the reference in the document you are editing before you publish it.

Columns, code points and entity names

What the two tables cover

Table I holds 100 entries. It starts with the four ASCII characters that are escaped in markup — the quotation mark, the ampersand and the two angle brackets — and then lists the Latin-1 block from U+00A0 (the no-break space,  ) to U+00FF (ÿ, ÿ): accented letters, ligatures and the punctuation of that range.

Table II holds 143 entries and covers the symbol sets that appear in prose and formulas: Greek letters (Α–ω), operators such as ≠, ≤, ≥, ⊕ and √, arrows such as → and ↔, and typographic characters such as •, ′, ™ and £. Several Latin-1 symbols are repeated at the end of the second table, so one character can appear in both.

Decimal references and entity names

The decimal column is the character's Unicode code point written in base ten: é is U+00E9, shown as é, and → is U+2192, shown as →. For Latin-1 the numbers match the old ISO-8859-1 table, which is why they run from 160 to 255.

Named entities are case-sensitive and are not interchangeable: Α is Α while α is α, and × has no &Times; counterpart. Browsers also accept hexadecimal references such as → for the same arrow, but this table lists the decimal form because it works in every version of HTML.

Using a reference in markup

Write the reference exactly as it appears in the table, semicolon included; a missing semicolon is the usual reason a reference shows up as literal text. To display a reference itself rather than the character it stands for, escape the leading ampersand, so é appears as text instead of é.

Everything here is local and fixed: the tables ship with the document, work from a saved or printed copy, and no value you look up is logged or sent anywhere.